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Shimmy   /ʃˈɪmi/   Listen
Shimmy

noun
1.
An abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels).
2.
A woman's sleeveless undergarment.  Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy.
3.
Lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips.
verb
1.
Tremble or shake.  Synonym: wobble.
2.
Dance a shimmy.





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"Shimmy" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Gold money is all sufferin's or 'arf-sufferin's. I got it tied in a corner o' what Miss Montagu taught me to call my shimmy—shifts bein' vulgar, ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... learned a lot since leaving school, not only about prohibition, but also about speed laws, men's fashions, facial massage, the fox trot and the shimmy, caviar, silk pajamas, bromo-seltzer, the language of flowers, and many of the pleasures and displeasures of the higher intellectual life, such as love ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... such pleasures as The shimmy and "the Bacchus Jazz"; Your presence with the maidens jars— You are the ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... Cabello coffees come across the thirty-mile gulf to the westward from the port of Tucacas, in a little steamer called the Barquisimento, which is famous all along the coast as the "cocktail shaker." C.H. Stewart[324] solemnly asserts that "Barky" can do the "shimmy" when lying at anchor in ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers


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